Single mother families and employment, race, and poverty in changing economic times

Damaske, Sarah; Bratter, Jenifer L.; Frech, A.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.08.008

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“…Statistics Korea reported that the proportion of single-parent families was 9.02% in 2010, 10.5% in 2014, and 10.9% in 2018 among the total families in Korea [3]. Non-intact families are exposed to complex and diverse problems involving poverty [4], employment, and education [5]. In addition, adolescents living with one parent tend to be bullied more often than those living with two parents [6].…”

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The association of family structure with health behavior, mental health, and perceived academic achievement among adolescents: a 2018 Korean nationally representative survey

Park

Lee

2020

BMC Public Health

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Background: Adolescence is a period during which physical, social, and mental abilities are rapidly developed, and during this time the family environment plays an important role. Differences in health behaviors, mental health, and academic achievement by family structure may affect future families, income, and employment. The purpose of the study was to investigate the association of family structure with health behaviors, mental health, and academic achievement in Korean adolescents. Method: Data from the 2018 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey were analyzed. The study sample was comprised of 59,096 adolescents. Logistic regression, t-tests, and a variance analysis of a complex sample general linear model were used to examine the association of family structure with health behaviors, mental health, and academic achievement. The significance level was set at P < 0.05. Results: Non-intact families (single-mother families, single-father families, and restructured families) had significantly higher odds of smoking a cigarette, drinking a sip of alcohol, internet use, physical activity, and sexual experience, and mental health issues such as depression, suicidal ideation, perceived stress, and poor perceived health status than intact families (two-parent families). Also, non-intact families were significantly related to low perceived academic achievement compared to intact ones. Conclusion: This study showed that family structure is a significant factor in adolescent health behavior, mental health, and perceived academic achievement. Adolescents who experience a transition in their family structure may be more vulnerable to health risks and exhibit lower academic achievement than those in an intact family.

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The association of family structure with health behavior, mental health, and perceived academic achievement among adolescents: a 2018 Korean nationally representative survey

Park

Lee

2020

BMC Public Health

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“…In addition, participation in public income support or social insurance benefit programs can serve as a protective factor against poverty (Brucker et al, 2015). Certain characteristics of the head of household (e.g., higher levels of educational attainment, male) can protect against poverty as well (Christopher, England, Smeeding, & Phillips, 2002;Damaske, Bratter, & Frech, 2017;DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, & Smith, 2011;Kramer, Myhra, Zuiker, & Bauer, 2016).…”

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Variations in Poverty by Family Characteristics Among Working‐Age Adults With Disabilities

Brucker

2019

Family Relations

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Objective To examine the association of family structure, family‐level employment, and receipt of adult public disability benefits on poverty levels among working‐age persons with disabilities in the United States. Background Working‐age persons with disabilities are more likely than their counterparts without disabilities to live in poverty. However, prior research has not fully examined differences in poverty that control for family structure, family‐level employment, receipt of adult public disability benefits, and other family‐level characteristics. Method Couched within a conceptual model of family resilience, data from the 2016 Current Population Survey (N = 110,865) were used to estimate binary logistic regression models predicting the likelihood of living in poverty, controlling for family structure, family‐level employment, receipt of adult public disability benefits, and other family‐level characteristics. Results Married or cohabiting households that include an adult with a disability had equal odds of living in poverty as married or cohabiting households without an adult with a disability. However, in single‐adult households, the risk of living in poverty was higher among those households where the adult had a disability than among those who did not. Employment and receipt of public disability benefits moderated the risk of living in poverty for persons with disabilities, particularly for single‐headed households. Conclusion Family structure, family‐level employment, and receipt of public disability benefits are associated with the risk of living in poverty among adults with disabilities in the United States. In short, the public disability benefit system in the United States can reduce but not totally alleviate the risks of poverty for working‐age adults with disabilities. Implications Continued investment into furthering the employment of adults with disabilities, while protecting the availability of public disability benefits can reduce the risks of poverty for Americans with disabilities.

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“…The life-course of children who experience changes, even repeated changes, in family structure tell a more complex story than previous accounts have told researchers about. More sound understandings of family dynamics ought to make room for people's agency in their choices of family life, as informed by the structural constraints in which they try to navigate the demands of work and family (Damaske, Bratter, and Frech (2017)); as well as considering potential alternative sources of strength and resilience which AFS also possess (Orthner, Jones-Sanpei, and Williamson (2003)). This paper is therefore a call for researchers to refocus on how children's well-being heavily depends on the weight of the socioeconomic gradient and not on hypothesized harmful psychological effects of dysfunctional families or absent relationship figures in children's lives.…”

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Family structure effects on U.S. children’s well-being? Re-examining the family instability hypothesis

Sánchez¹

2019

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Previous studies have shown that children who grow up in marriage-based twoparent families fare better in terms of their well-being than children who do not. Other researchers have instead argued that these negative effects are confounded by the children's parents characteristics affecting selection into specific family structure trajectories, which likewise affect the children's well-being. However, researchers have been unable to account for the complex and dynamic relation between the socioeconomic conditions of individuals and their trajectories of family formation and dissolution.Here I argue that even when researchers account for selection based on observable background characteristics, the negative effect of changes in family structure experienced during childhood on children's well-being may be biased. Exposure-confounder feedback bias may be present in this association in the form of time-varying confounders such as socioeconomic conditions which affect family transitions and are affected by them dynamically. Data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study is used to empirically show this is the case. Family instability is here considered as a timevarying exposure. Estimations of effects of family transitions on multiple dimensions of children's well-being are obtained through estimation of doubly robust marginal structural models and inverse probability of treatment weighting. It is shown that most 1 of the effects of family instability are negative with a few noticeable exceptions. But more importantly, the paper shows that the size of these negative effects can be substantially reduced after partially accounting for an idiosyncratic selection of baseline background confounders and exposure-confounder feedback mechanisms. A discussion of these findings, as they relate to the association between socioeconomic conditions and contemporary family dynamics in the U.S., ensues.

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Single mother families and employment, race, and poverty in changing economic times

Cited by 70 publications

References 34 publications

The association of family structure with health behavior, mental health, and perceived academic achievement among adolescents: a 2018 Korean nationally representative survey

The association of family structure with health behavior, mental health, and perceived academic achievement among adolescents: a 2018 Korean nationally representative survey

Variations in Poverty by Family Characteristics Among Working‐Age Adults With Disabilities

Family structure effects on U.S. children’s well-being? Re-examining the family instability hypothesis

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